in halo 2 both of the story lines were good... but i just want one because when i was playing halo2 i lost track of were master chief was and that pi$$ed me off. so they should just have one story line in halo 3.

They really have to have two at this point, but I think they should make two separate campaigns, so you choose your character and there's no switching. Then once you've beaten that campaign, you can go do the other one.

I think they should leave the campaign set up how it is, but have less Arbiter levels and MC levels. The game is about MC, is it not?

i don't know if my opinion counts but the whole switching between Master chief and the elite really sucked and kinda pissed me off.

But i would like it to possible be like on Star Craft. That being where you can chose between 2-3 diffrent groups. And dispite what you stated i actually liked the Avitars story. It made me feel closer to then, and kinda feel bad for what ï"(being Master Cheif in halo 1) did and how it ruined him. Can you imagine that your whole life is based on your Honnor toward a single Belief and when you lose it you rlife has no meaning???

Either way i don't want to go into that. But i would like to hear more of the story line behind the other creatres that fight with the elites. We now know that they wern't all together at one point and that this Belief in Halo made them unite....so i'd like to knwo the Hunters. the little guys, and the Jackals storys and what brought them together. And maybe even perhaps play as a Brute, so i can see through their "evil" eyes. Can you remember in Halo one where you hated to come across an elite because they were evil? But i'm sure in Halo 2 you saw them in a diffrent light.

Either way those thoughts an ideas being presented i have an idea for the rest of the Halo story. And i find it to be quite exilerating :cool:

I disagree with a Brute character, but a Flood one might be cool. I didn't mind the switching too much, but I really would've preferred it if you could choose.

i wouldnt like it any different. in h1 everyone hated the elites and all of the covenant. after being the arbiter, i dont hate them as much because they will likely be our allies in halo3. as the arbite the only thing you killed were flood and "bad" covenant, not humans. if you played as a brute, who would you kill. not humans because you play as them. not elites for the same reason. bungie never made us kill someone that we played as, like never killing humans as the arbiter because that would piss people off. if you were a brute, you couldnt kill anyone, as flood you could only kill brutes ,grunts,etc. except elites and maybe hunters.

having too storylines at the same time is bad. :mad: you want to play with one but you play with the other. :eek: they should let one pick a storyline so you can beat one then they other that would be the best :D and if you pick humans you can be a marine and the other units and the same for the covenants like being agrunt or huntthat would be good you think

I like the idea of two seperate ones.

The multiple story lines just adds more depth to the game. Think of it more as subplots. All good stories have subplots that help move along and tie into the the main story line.

i like the whole idea you get to see into both worlds i actually wish that they could bring in a mission of the flood so you can see how they actually operate instead of the assumption that they are mindless killers but the way that the stories tied in together into halo 2 was really awesome

I disagree with a Brute character, but a Flood one might be cool. I didn't mind the switching too much, but I really would've preferred it if you could choose.

i think it would be hard to set up a story for a flood character because the flood have no actual point in there existence, there just basically zombies who have one goal in life, and thats to feed, to survive. i mean it would be pretty cool to be one but it would be extremely hard to have a storyline for one of them. well i probably am not explaining my point clearly but w/e.

Well, the Flood we've seen do, but the Monitor does say in Halo 1 that they are extremely intelligent. It may seem as though they are just killing whatever they see, but I think they have a much clearer purpose in mind. I think a Flood campaign, albeit probably a fairly short one, would be really cool.

even though the moniter says that they are intelligent that dont look like it. a flood campaign would be hard because they have no purpose. all they do is kill to survive and reproduce and keep on killing, that would get boring quick.

i do know it would be a hard edition to halo three and maybe if now in the third one i know that there will be a fourth one eventually so maybe they could set up the story line for it in the third one and actually do it in the fourth. it wouldnt be long but i think it would be really different to play as the enemy again the enemy of both it seems

Oh cmon guys, playing as an Elite was freaking awsome, and Halo2 isnt about Masterchief, hes just the main character, Halo2 is about a Halo (the weapon that threatens earth) Duh? and right now its showing how two foes come together to fight a great foe (who we will see in halo3) the flood boss man, who is super intellegent...only reason why he saves MC and Arbitor was to to save him self..or is it not that obvious....And a Flood campaign is dumb...i mean....you would be super weak to say a shotgun..no shields, no cloaking, lights or anything....and there isnt like a super flood guy, who leads other flood guys...the flood are just zombies....nothing more

I like the idea that you could choose your own storyline like gangstergrunt said. I don't like the ideas as being the Flood and Brute. Then it seems like your just have to play as every creature type in the game you encounter. Which then make have switch constantly with a different person everytime. So my opionion is that Bungie should just stick with MC and Arbitar.

i know that the story line doesnt permit really a series of flood missions but it could be intresting i understand who would want a mission as the grunt or jackal . the only instance i want to see them would possibly be in multiplayer mode it would be kinda weird but the reason they used the elite its the same size as the MC and they are able to weild the same weapons but it would be intresting to use stealth and sunning instead of firepower and strength to move around a little

I think it would be really gay to play as anything but the arbiter or master chief. It would be cool to have a multiplayer mode where two teams could go up against each other, like maybe the master chief and 3 marines vs. the arbiter, 3 jackles and 4 grunts. The extra covenant would be to make up for the fact that grunts are weak soldiers and jackles are strong soldiers but are very weak on the deffensive end whereas marines could be pretty good if controlled by a person. There might be a few kinks in that scenario but it sounds pretty cool overall.
Speaking of story line I'm not sure how the next one will go. I would like to see more books in the future. Was I the only one that thought it looked like there would be like 8 more Halo games (I am not sure on the number), because of the number of rings that are mentioned at the end of Halo 2, but how those games would play out I'm not sure of.
Also for those that read the books, wouldn't it be cool to play prequals that involved all of blue, red, and green teams. Even if you played as Blue One in The Fall of Reach, it could still be cool to play that game, maybe after one of the characters dies you could take up control of one of the other characters, like maybe a marine or something. And there could be more time based things that required you to quickly do things, and not mess around. Although it would be hard to play missions that involved all of Blue team (5 people), but then again it might be cool to have system linked, or Live campaign modes.

If only Bungie read these threads, then maybe they might get a few ideas, hopefully they already do.

I think a Flood character would be interesting as another twist in the plot and gameplay. Multiplayer modes where players have different abilities would be cool, but having some people be just plain inferior is kind of stupid. No one would ever want to be anything but a Spartan or Elite, except maybe a Jackal (and that's one hell of a maybe).

I'm guessing that the storyline of the next one will be more earth-based, and probably the Arbiter and MC will both end up there. It would be cool to see a confrontation between the two, although at this point they'd probably be on the same side. Having co-op where one person plays the Arbiter and one plays MC so it would actually make sense with the plot would be cool.

I also hope that more books will be written about Halo; they are a great addition to the plot. There are actually only five more Halos, though we may not be finished with the first two. I think a game per Halo would be too predictable, but I agree that they all will probably be dealt with.

I don't think there should be games based on the books, since we'd already know all the plot twists and everything. Also, it would seriously limit Bungie's creativity gameplay-wise; the books weren't written to be played. I think their time would be better spent making new scenarios for us.

in halo 2 both of the story lines were good... but i just want one because when i was playing halo2 i lost track of were master chief was and that pi$$ed me off. so they should just have one story line in halo 3.
It's one story line, it's just two points of the story. Having two story lines would be like playing two games at once.

I think they should leave the campaign set up how it is, but have less Arbiter levels and MC levels. The game is about MC, is it not?
You auotomatically think that the game is about Master Chief because Bungie doesn't want to spoil the story for everyone by advertising the Arbiter.

i don't know if my opinion counts but the whole switching between Master chief and the elite really sucked and kinda pissed me off.

But i would like it to possible be like on Star Craft. That being where you can chose between 2-3 diffrent groups. And dispite what you stated i actually liked the Avitars story. It made me feel closer to then, and kinda feel bad for what ï"(being Master Cheif in halo 1) did and how it ruined him. Can you imagine that your whole life is based on your Honnor toward a single Belief and when you lose it you rlife has no meaning???

Either way i don't want to go into that. But i would like to hear more of the story line behind the other creatres that fight with the elites. We now know that they wern't all together at one point and that this Belief in Halo made them unite....so i'd like to knwo the Hunters. the little guys, and the Jackals storys and what brought them together. And maybe even perhaps play as a Brute, so i can see through their "evil" eyes. Can you remember in Halo one where you hated to come across an elite because they were evil? But i'm sure in Halo 2 you saw them in a diffrent light.

Either way those thoughts an ideas being presented i have an idea for the rest of the Halo story. And i find it to be quite exilerating :cool:
Yeah, I reckon you should be able to play as a Arbiter, possibly from the past, to redeem the Hunters and overcome the Grunt Rebellion and even further back through the covenant history were the Prophet's and the Elite's were at each other's throats. Playing the History of the Covenant would be like Halo 1 just being the covenant instead of the Humans. I reckon it would be cool.

Oh cmon guys, playing as an Elite was freaking awsome, and Halo2 isnt about Masterchief, hes just the main character, Halo2 is about a Halo (the weapon that threatens earth) Duh? and right now its showing how two foes come together to fight a great foe (who we will see in halo3) the flood boss man, who is super intellegent...only reason why he saves MC and Arbitor was to to save him self..or is it not that obvious....And a Flood campaign is dumb...i mean....you would be super weak to say a shotgun..no shields, no cloaking, lights or anything....and there isnt like a super flood guy, who leads other flood guys...the flood are just zombies....nothing more

THANK YOU! all you others are blind. the arbiter and cheif are NOT going to have a bigass fight, there will be NO flood campaign. and if there are no more arbiter missions then the mc and arbiter will work together.

what i would like to see is they go kick everyones ass. the story is cool and i mean i have opinions but all i want to do is kill them all

French Toast and Darkelf are right, it was cool to play as the arbiter, and it would be cool to play co-op missions where one player was the master chief and the arbiter was played by the other one. It never made any sense to play in co-op mode when your didn't have the spartans in the story line to provide an excuse as to why there were two spartans on-screen, or the fact that there was only one arbiter in the first place. The only thing that took some getting used to was not shooting your own guys as the arbiter, and I never liked the fact that the arbiter HUD was pink, come on Bungie what the heck were you thinking when you chose pink?

One Stroy line..i was thinking about MC and the Arbitor joining to fight against the Halo since he found out the truth about them i dont mind playing two story lines but i would rather not know what the other side is doing...i mean if you was doing this in real life you would have some intel but you wouldnt be changing roles.

Knowing the other character's plans never made any change in the gameplay, and plot-wise they didn't know what each other were doing anyway.

not that it did that im just saying that i want one story because 2 stories kinda ruin it even though they come together in the end

I actually enjoyed the two stories. One, because I had Grunts on my side and two, it shed new light on the story. But I think that there should be two campaigns as has been suggested many a time. One for the MC and one for a Grunt (JK) ;)

What is it with you and grunts?!?
:)

i think that halo 2 was more about the covinent that the humans i hope halo 3 is just an all out blood bath and there are like marines and elits and hunters and grunts killing brutes and jackels and buggers thats all i really want all out killing and in multiplayer i want bots

But there is a disadvantage to bots, first off they have been known to cause lag in many games, like Tribes2, but idk if i would want Halo to get bots, b/c halo is its own game, i mean ya its a shooter, but if it got bots, it would become like other games that you can already buy and crap

I recon that the storyline was quite confusing, but once u hav completed it a few times thru, u understand it better.

I think it was important to be able to see both sides of the storyline but I do agree that swithching back and forth was a pain and made me lose focus on the other side of the story. Having two separate campains would be interesting but we definatly need more of the masterchief

Halo3's story line is going to start where halo2 left off. Halo3 was going to be a part of halo2 but Bungie thought that it was too long so they cut it in half. And being able to choose story lines is cool.